Maria Goldberg is 12 when the Nazis come into power. She and her friends experience how the new regime begins to dominate public life. And how more and more personal freedoms are taken away. Especially for people who are considered different.
“A friend, a good friend...” Paul sings laughing. “That is the best thing you can have in this world…”
“A friend will stay your friend”, the others join in the well-known song by the Comedian Harmonists, “even if the whole world collapses around you. A friend, a good friend – that is the greatest treasure ever!”
Maria Goldberg is 12 when the National Socialists come into power. She and her friends experience how the new regime begins to dominate public life. And how more and more personal freedoms are taken away. Especially for people who are considered different. Maria is one of them.
Fee-Christine Aks
Fee-Christine Aks lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. She has studied in Germany, England and Sweden and gathered many impressions on her trips around the world that inspire her literary works. She writes historic-modern fiction for young readers and adults. More about the author on www.fee-christine-aks.com and on www.facebook.com/feechristine.aks
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